Dog torturer’s custody extended

A man who was arrested for torturing a dog in Bani Jamrah village will remain in custody pending further investigation, it was announced yesterday. Northern Governorate Chief Prosecutor Mohammed Abdullah said yesterday that the case has been referred to the concerned court.

This came a day after the Northern Governorate Police General Director confirmed the arrest of the man, a few hours after he appeared in the footage, which showed him strangling and beating a dog on the rooftop of a building. The man was also seen filming the dog while it howled in pain.

It is not yet known whether the dog survived the torture as the animal is shown motionless towards the end of the footage, which was, apparently, secretly filmed by an unknown individual. Animal lovers and activists thanked security authorities for their swift action and demanded to impose tough punishment on the perpetrator, who’s reportedly a Bahraini, and on all animal abusers in general.

Chairman of Bahrain Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA) Mahmood Faraj condemned the incident in a statement and stressed that it’s an act “exclusive to the individual who committed the crime and does not reflect the values of the general Bahraini society”. He added that “this individual should be punished according to the full extent of the law”.